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Deceived: The Story of the Donner Party
A wagon train heading west in 1846 is a few weeks behind schedule but still expecting to make their way across the Sierra Nevadas before the snowfall. Soon, they join another wagon train taking a new cut-off that supposedly saves two weeks of travel time but has never been tried by wagons. Known as the Donner Party, after leader George Donner, the group endures weeks of gr...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
October 1998
by Ipswich Borough
(first published October 1983)
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A pretty decent, easy read--especially for a storyline that can be confusing with all the characters & simultaneous events. Towards the end it gets gruesome describing the cannibalism, but this is not the focal point of the book. This is a harrowing story of a million things gone wrong that added up to a major disaster. I am in awe that anyone was able to survive at all!
The Donnor Party's struggle to reach California despite harsh weather and starvation. This is absolutely one of the BEST and the most DETAILED accounts of the Donnor Party story that I have read. Highly recommended!
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